{"id":215193,"date":"2020-10-18T07:36:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T07:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215193"},"modified":"2020-10-21T07:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:15:40","slug":"before-the-bidens-did-ukraine-there-was-iraq-and-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215193","title":{"rendered":"Before the Bidens \u2018Did\u2019 Ukraine, There Was Iraq \u2013 and Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>James George JATRAS \u2013 Strategic Review Oct 16, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Biden-Poroshenko.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-195580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Biden-Poroshenko-768x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Biden-Poroshenko-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Biden-Poroshenko-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Biden-Poroshenko.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The United States approaches the November 2020 election with growing apprehension, even dread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Among the possibilities:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Protracted uncertainty about the presidential contest. Think Florida 2000 but with several states\u2019 results unresolved for weeks or even months (\u201cExperts held \u2018war games\u2019 on the Trump vs. Biden election. Their finding? Brace for a mess\u201d);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A disputed outcome, perhaps with Donald Trump and Joe Biden both claiming victory, compounded by a \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-10-02\/the-big-blue-shift-that-could-spell-election-mayhem-quicktake\">blue shift<\/a>,\u201d where states are claimed by Trump on election night but flip over to Biden as additional absentee and mail-in ballots conveniently turn up days or weeks later;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Violent civil conflict, spurred on in the streets by goon squads mobilized and funded by <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commdiginews.com\/politics-2\/george-soros-gave-black-lives-matter-and-antifa-over-100-million-dollars-130048\/\">a <em>Who\u2019s Who<\/em> of the corporate and foundation establishment<\/a>; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A color revolution style regime change operation staged by groups like <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2020\/09\/transition-integrity-project-is-this-soros-linked-group-plotting-a-color-revolution-against-president-trump\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the Soros-linked \u201cTransition Integrity Project<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/span> and managed by people like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2020\/09\/meet-norm-eisen-legal-hatchet-man-and-central-operative-in-the-color-revolution-against-president-trump\/\">legal hatchet man\u201d Norm Eisen<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, perhaps culminating in <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/essays\/the-coming-coup\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>a military coup to remove Trump<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and install Biden in the Oval Office (as detailed by former <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iVXX8WIJpKk\">Virginia State Senator and Judge Advocate General officer Richard Black<\/a><\/strong><\/span>).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For those who have followed events outside the United States during the past few decades, much of this sounds familiar. We\u2019ve seen it before \u2013 inflicted on other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Now It\u2019s Coming Home to the U.S.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2020\/09\/transition-integrity-project-is-this-soros-linked-group-plotting-a-color-revolution-against-president-trump\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\">As explained by <em>Revolver News<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">, what happens in America next to a great extent may be a form of <em>blowback<\/em> from a specific event: the U.S.-supported 2014 regime change operation in Ukraine:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018A \u201cColor Revolution\u201d in this context refers to a specific type of coordinated attack that the United States government has been known to deploy against foreign regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe deemed to be \u201cauthoritarian\u201d and hostile to American interests. Rather than using a direct military intervention to effect regime change as in Iraq, Color Revolutions attack a foreign regime by <strong>contesting its electoral legitimacy, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging media contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the Western press<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018It would be disturbing enough to note a coordinated effort to use these exact same strategies and tactics domestically to undermine or overthrow President Trump. The ominous nature of what we see unfolding before us only truly hits home when one realizes that the people who specialize in these Color Revolution regime change operations overseas are, literally, <strong>the <\/strong><em><strong>very same people<\/strong><\/em><strong> attempting to overthrow Trump by using the <\/strong><em><strong>very same playbook<\/strong><\/em>. Given that the most famous Color Revolution was the [2004] \u201cOrange Revolution\u201d in the Ukraine, and that Black Lives Matter is being used as a key component of the domestic Color Revolution against Trump, we can encapsulate our thesis at Revolver with the simple remark that<strong> \u201cBlack is the New Orange.\u201d<\/strong>\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This hardly should come as a surprise. The same government agencies and their corporate, NGO, and think tank cronies that are now weaponizing Black Lives Matter, Antifa, other Wokesters, and <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/essays\/the-coming-coup\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>military putsch plotters here at home to remove Trump<\/strong><\/span><\/a> have turned regime change abroad into an art form. Ukraine was one of their signal successes, featuring a cast of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolver.news\/2020\/09\/meet-norm-eisen-legal-hatchet-man-and-central-operative-in-the-color-revolution-against-president-trump\/\">characters later key to the failed \u201cUkrainegate\u201d impeachment<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Another consequence of regime change: corruption. As the old saying goes, any idiot can turn an aquarium into fish soup, but no one has yet figured out how to reverse the process. Once a country gets broken it tends to stay broken, whether the \u201cbreaking\u201d is accomplished by military means (Serbia 1999, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011) or by a color revolution from the streets (Serbia 2000, Georgia 2003, Ukraine 2004-2005 and again in 2014, Kyrgyzstan 2005, Lebanon 2005, Armenia 2018, plus <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colour_revolution\">many others of varying degrees of success<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and failures in Iran, Russia, Venezuela, China (Hong Kong), and Belarus). With the target nation\u2019s institutions in shambles, the dregs take over \u2013 in Libya, for example, even to the point of reintroducing <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-39567632\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>trade in sub-Saharan African slaves<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, whose black lives evidently don\u2019t <em>matter <\/em>to anyone at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Iraq: Crush, Corrupt, Cash In<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Finally, once regime change occurs and corruption is rampant, another shoe drops: foreign vultures descend on the carcass, profiteers who in many cases are <em>the very same people that helped to create the chaos on which they are cashing in<\/em>. Invariably, these carpetbaggers are well-connected individuals in the aggressor states and organizations positioned on the inside track both for the carve-up of the target country\u2019s resources and (the word \u201chypocrisy\u201d doesn\u2019t begin to describe it) for funds to implement \u201creform\u201d and \u201creconstruction\u201d of the devastated target.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The showcase of this scam, pursuant to Colin Powell\u2019s reported \u201cPottery Barn Rule\u201d (<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pottery_Barn_rule\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>You break it, you own it<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>) was the money ostensibly spent on rebuilding Iraq, despite assurances from the war\u2019s advocates that it would pay for itself. With the formal costs conservatively <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/military\/library\/report\/2013\/sigir-learning-from-iraq.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>set at over $60 billion<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7f435f04-8c05-11e2-b001-00144feabdc0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>$138 billion<\/strong><\/span><\/a> out of a tab for the war of over <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/management\/2020\/02\/iraq-war-has-cost-us-nearly-2-trillion\/162862\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>two trillion dollars<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, the lion\u2019s share of it went to U.S. and other vendors, including the notorious $1.4 billion no-bid contract to Halliburton subsidiary KBR, of which then-Vice President Dick Cheney, a major proponent of the war, had been a top executive. (\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2014\/04\/rand-paul-dick-cheney-exploited-911-iraq-halliburton\/\">Rand Paul Says Dick Cheney Pushed for the Iraq War So Halliburton Would Profit<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>In Ukraine, Biden\u2019s Son Also Rises<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_196076\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196076\" class=\"wp-image-196076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade-768x1486.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade-155x300.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade-529x1024.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-196076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hunter and Joe Biden at Obama 2009 inaugural parade. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The predatory cronyism vignette most pertinent to the Black\/Orange regime change op now unfolding before us with the intent of installing Joe Biden in the Oval Office is that of his son, Hunter, and a Ukrainian energy company with a sketchy reputation, Burisma Holdings. (Right at the outset, even some of Hunter\u2019s associates <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7519043\/Chris-Heinz-split-business-partner-Hunter-Biden-board-seat-Ukrainian-energy-company.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>though the gig with Burisma was too \u201ctoxic\u201d and broke off ties with him<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.) Though ignored or dismissed as fake news and a conspiracy theory by Democrats and legacy media (or do I repeat myself?), the facts are well enough known and fit the Iraq pattern to a T: then-Vice President Joe Biden pushed for regime change in Ukraine, which succeeded in February 2014 with the ouster of the constitutionally elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/07\/08\/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign\">In April 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter, was brought onto Burisma\u2019s board (along with a fellow named <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/three-convicted-manhattan-federal-court-fraudulent-issuance-and-sale-more-60-million\">Devon Archer, later convicted of unrelated fraud<\/a><\/strong><\/span>) at an exorbitant level of compensation that made little sense in light of Hunter\u2019s nonexistent expertise in the energy business \u2013 but which made plenty of sense given that his dad was not only Veep but the Obama administration\u2019s point man on policy toward Ukraine, including foreign assistance money. [<strong><u>NOTE<\/u><\/strong>: It now has come out that <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/smoking-gun-emails-show-hunter-biden-introduced-vp-dad-burisma-executive\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>in 2015 Hunter put his dad, the U.S. Vice President, in direct contact with Burisma<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, news the giant tech firms sought to suppress on social media.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When a troublesome <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/ukrainiain-son-bitch-who-got-fired-files-criminal-complaint-against-biden-abuse-power\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ukrainian prosecutor named Viktor Shokin<\/strong><\/span><\/a> seemed to be taking too much interest in Burisma, Papa Joe came to the rescue, openly threatening the western-dependent politicians installed after Ukraine\u2019s 2014 color revolution with withholding of a billion dollars in U.S. aid until Shokin, whom Joe unironically alleged to be \u201ccorrupt,\u201d got the heave-ho. As <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KL3UQoqy0Qw\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tucker Carlson nails it<\/strong><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Shokin\u2019s ouster followed a direct request<\/strong><\/span><\/a> from Burisma\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluestarstrategies.com\/about\/our-team\/karen-tramontano\">Clinton-connected PR firm, Blue Star Strategies<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, to Hunter to lobby his dad to get Shokin off their back. Joe did just what was asked. <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/high-profile\/biden-reportedly-bragged-about-the-firing-of-a-prosecutor-who-was-investigating-his-sons-firm\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>He later bragged<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: \u201cI said, \u2018You\u2019re not getting the billion. I\u2019m going to be leaving here [i.e., Kiev] in, I think it was about six hours.\u2019 I looked at them and said, \u2018I\u2019m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you\u2019re not getting the money.\u2019 Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>But First There Was Serbia<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Today many people remember Iraq, some have a clue about Ukraine. But Serbia, which preceded them, is off the radar screen of most Americans. To recap:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As a Senator in the 1990s, Joe Biden was one of the most militant advocates of U.S. military action against Serbs during the breakup of the Yugoslav federation, first in Croatia (1991-95), then in Bosnia (1992-95), and then in Serbia\u2019s province of Kosovo (1998- 1999). (As has been said about others like Hillary Clinton and the late John McCain, Biden evidently has never met a war he didn\u2019t like. Along with Hillary, in 2003 Biden helped to whip Senate Democrat votes for the Bush-Cheney Iraq war.) Channeling <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U7s5pT3Rris\">his inner John McCain<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Biden continually called for the U.S. to bomb, bomb, bomb bomb the Serbs while (in a foreshadowing of the Obama-Biden administration\u2019s support for jihad terrorists in Libya and Syria, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/11\/03\/bombshell-revelation-us-saudi-culpability-creating-isis-ignored-mainstream-media-trump\/\">which ultimately resulted in the appearance of ISIS<\/a><\/strong><\/span>) pushed successfully for sending weapons to the Islamist regime in Bosnia and then for the U.S. to arm the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Dwi5xdxX0AAkvp9?format=jpg&amp;name=medium\">Islamo-narco-terrorist group known as the \u201cKosovo Liberation Army\u201d (KLA<\/a>)<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Joe Biden was the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/106\/sconres21\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>primary sponsor of the March 1999 Kosovo war authorization<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for military action against Serbia and Montenegro, S. Con. Res. 21. (As a little remembered historical note, Biden\u2019s resolution might be seen as the last nail in the coffin of Congress\u2019s constitutional war power. While S. Con. Res 21 passed the Senate, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/votes\/106-1999\/h103\">it failed in the House on a 213-213 tie vote<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, with Republicans overwhelmingly voting Nay. It didn\u2019t matter. Bill Clinton, reeling from the Lewinsky scandal, went ahead with the bombing campaign anyway.) The ensuing 78-day NATO air operation had little impact on Serbia\u2019s military but devastated the country\u2019s infrastructure and took hundreds of civilian lives. (Even now, more than 20 years later, Serbia suffers from <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nuclear-news.net\/2020\/01\/02\/depleted-uranium-causing-cancer-epidemic-in-serbia\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>elevated cancer levels attributed to depleted uranium munitions<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.) But for <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ld7nJRqLxt4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jihad Joe<\/strong><\/span><\/a> even that wasn\u2019t punishment enough for people he collectively demonized as \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/malic\/2009\/05\/19\/biden-does-the-balkans\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>illiterate degenerates, baby killers, butchers, and rapists<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u201d In May 1999, at the height of the NATO air assault, he called for the introduction of <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/1999\/05\/keep-wall-high-joe-biden-warmonger-jonah-goldberg\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>U.S. ground troops (\u201cwe should announce there\u2019s going to be American casualties\u201d) followed by \u201ca Japanese-German style occupation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Eventually the bombing stopped in June 1999 when then-Serbian strongman Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 acceded to temporary international occupation of Kosovo on the condition that the province would remain part of Serbia, as codified in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244. It was a promise the U.S. and NATO, not to mention their European Union (EU) concubine, had no intention of keeping. Under the nose of the NATO occupation, ostensibly demobilized <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2020\/06\/30\/bill-clintons-serbian-war-atrocities-exposed-in-new-indictment\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>KLA thugs were given virtually free rein to terrorize the Serbian population<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, two-thirds of whom were driven out along with Jews and Roma, the rest sheltering in enclaves where they remain to this day. Orthodox Christian churches and monasteries, many of them centuries old, were particular targets for destruction and desecration. KLA commanders \u2013 who were also kingpins in the Kosovo Albanian mafia dealing in <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/opinion\/national-perspectives\/scott-taylor-thuggish-kosovo-president-not-aligned-with-canadian-values-467309\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>sex slaves, drugs, weapons, and even human organs<\/strong><\/span><\/a> \u2013 were handed local administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2007 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e0aa1a94-9a8a-11db-bbd2-0000779e2340\">Senator Biden praised the new order<\/a><\/strong><\/span> as a \u201cvictory for Muslim democracy\u201d and \u201ca much-needed example of a successful U.S.-Muslim partnership.\u201d A year later, the Bush administration sought to complete the job by ramming through Kosovo\u2019s independence in barefaced violation of UNSCR 1244 and despite strong Russian objections. But instead of resolving anything the result was a frozen conflict that persists today, with about half of the United Nations\u2019 member states recognizing Kosovo and half not. Touting itself as the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.konsullata-ks.net\/ny\/?page=2,72,41\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>most pro-American \u201ccountry\u201d [sic] in the world<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/FA\/FA00\/20170614\/106115\/HHRG-115-FA00-20170614-SD002.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Kosovo pseudo-state became a prime recruiting ground for ISIS<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But hey, business was good! Just as in Iraq, the politically well-connected, including former officials instrumental in the attack on Serbia and occupying Kosovo, flocked to the province fueled by lavish aid subsidies from the U.S. and the EU, which for a while made Kosovo one of the biggest per capita foreign assistance recipient \u201ccountries\u201d in the world. One such vulture \u2013 sorry, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/12\/world\/europe\/americans-who-helped-free-kosovo-return-as-entrepreneurs.html\">entrepreneur<\/a><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 was former Secretary of State Madeleine <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bntsfiAXMEE\">we-think-a-half-million-dead-Iraqi-children-is-worth-it<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Albright, a prominent driver of the Clinton administration\u2019s hostile policy on top of <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1FaPuBUY558\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>her personal Serb-hatred<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Albright sought to cash in to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars on sale of the mobile telephone company PTK, originally a Yugoslav state-owned firm that was \u201cprivatized\u201d (i.e., stolen) in 2005 as a joint stock company, but who later dropped her bid when it attracted unwanted publicity. Also in the hunt for Kosovo riches was former NATO Supreme Commander and operational chief of the Kosovo war <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/2016\/09\/13\/kosovo-mulls-giving-wesley-clark-major-stake-in-coal-09-12-2016\/\">General Wesley Clark, who reportedly cornered a major share of the occupied province\u2019s coal resources under a sweetheart deal<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that seems to have vanished from public scrutiny since first reported in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At the moment there seems to be no smoking gun of a direct Biden family payout, <em>\u00e0 la <\/em>Ukraine, but there is a possible trail via Hunter\u2019s Burisma-buddy Devon Archer and <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/three-convicted-manhattan-federal-court-fraudulent-issuance-and-sale-more-60-million\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Archer\u2019s fellow-defendant John \u201cYanni\u201d Galanis<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>,<\/strong><\/span> who in turn is connected to top Kosovo Albanian politicians. In any case, the Biden clan seems to have paid a lot of attention to Kosovo for not having skin in the game. Joe\u2019s late son and Delaware Attorney General, Beau, worked in Kosovo following the war to train local prosecutors as part of an OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) \u201crule of law\u201d mission (admittedly a big task in a mafia-run pseudo-state), <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/story\/news\/2016\/08\/17\/road-kosovo-named-after-beau-biden\/88895644\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>for which a road was named after him near the massive U.S. base Camp Bondsteel<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. With Hunter on hand for the naming ceremony, Joe Biden took the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/kosovo-biden-visit-serbia-europe\/27928222.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>opportunity to express his \u201ccondolences\u201d to Serbian families who lost loved<\/strong><\/span><\/a> ones in the NATO air assault \u2013 of which he was a primary advocate.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>A \u2018Shokin\u2019 Demand\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Perhaps the best parallel between Biden\u2019s handiwork in Ukraine and his interest in Kosovo also relates to getting rid of an inconvenient individual. But in this case, the person in question wasn\u2019t a state official like Burisma prosecutor Viktor Shokin but a hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In May 2009 Vice President Biden insisted on visiting one of Kosovo\u2019s most venerable Serbian Orthodox Christian sites, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.b92.net\/eng\/news\/politics.php?yyyy=2009&amp;mm=05&amp;dd=20&amp;nav_id=59276\">the Visoki De\u010dani monastery<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Ruling Bishop Artemije of the Eparchy of Ra\u0161ka and Prizren, which includes Kosovo and Metohija, refused to give his blessing for the visit, in effect telling Biden he was not welcome. Bishop Artemije long had been a bane of Biden and others advocating detachment of Kosovo from Serbia, starting with his first mission to Washington in 1997 as war clouds gathered. In 2004 Bishop Artemije <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/wwrn.org\/articles\/7392\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>sued the NATO powers in the European Court of Human Rights<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in Strasbourg following their inaction to protect his flock during an <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.srbija.gov.rs\/kosovo-metohija\/en\/8923\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>anti-Serbian rampage by Muslim Albanian militants in March of that year<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Then, in March 2006, as preparations were underway for a \u201cfinal solution\u201d to the Kosovo issue, Bishop Artemije launched an intensive multinational lobbying and public relations effort (in which Yours Truly <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.danas.rs\/drustvo\/politika-sad-i-eu-prema-kosovu-se-ne-razlikuje\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>was the lead professional<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) to try to derail the U.S. policy to which Biden had devoted so much attention. While the Bishop\u2019s campaign was unsuccessful in reversing U.S. policy it was instrumental in delaying it for over a year \u2013 to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aacl.com\/post\/the-serbian-lobby-attempts-to-hijack-u-s-foreign-policy-on-kosova\">howls of outrage<\/a><\/strong><\/span> from <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/sorabia@yahoogroups.com\/msg09759.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Biden\u2019s associates in Washington<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Thus, for Biden, the monastery visit snub by Bishop Artemije was adding insult to injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The end for Bishop Artemije came a few months later, at the beginning of 2010 at the time of two visits to Kosovo by U.S. Admiral Mark P. Fitzgerald, then Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa, and Commander, Allied Joint Force Command (JFC) Naples, (who retired later that year, becoming, unsurprisingly, a consultant \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/jinsa.org\/person\/adm-mark-p-fitzgerald-usn-ret\/\">with numerous defense and commercial maritime and aviation contractors<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d). At that time, an unconfirmed report indicated that a high NATO officer (whether Admiral Fitzgerald or someone else is not specified) stated in the course of one of his local meetings (this is verbatim or a close paraphrase): \u201cWhat we need here is a more cooperative bishop.\u201d (More details are available<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2019\/05\/04\/serbian-church-defeats-us-agenda-in-ukraine-but-not-in-serbia-yet\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Since that posting last year the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/jfcnaples.nato.int\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>NATO command in Naples<\/strong><\/span><\/a> seems to have scrubbed the items about Fitzgerald\u2019s 2010 visits from their site.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Shortly afterwards, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_priest%3F\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Biden\u2019s <em>troublesome priest<\/em> was forcibly removed<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by police and exiled from his see, without ecclesiastical trial, by Church authorities in Belgrade under pressure from compliant Serbian politicians installed after the October 2000 color revolution, in turn pressured by NATO. The pretext? Transparently baseless charges of financial wrongdoing. In other words, bogus accusations of \u201ccorruption\u201d \u2013 like against Ukraine\u2019s Shokin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One could almost hear Joe Biden chortle: \u201cWell, son of a bitch. He got fired.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>But Look at the Bright Side\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Back to the incipient coup facing the United States, there should be no illusion that what\u2019s at stake in the unfolding scenario for the removal of Donald Trump is <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclesmagazine.org\/blog\/does-america-have-a-future-\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>not just his presidency<\/strong><\/span><\/a> but the survival of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AvvRM-0dd5o\">the historic American <em>ethnos<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span> of which he is seen as an avatar by both his supporters and detractors. Remember, we\u2019re dealing with predators and scavengers who are happy to <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2017\/08\/17\/death-of-nation\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>burn the old, evil America down<\/strong><\/span><\/a> as long as they can achieve total power and continue to feather their cushy nests. Short of a blowout Trump victory by a margin too big to hijack, we\u2019re headed for a dystopian state of affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If they do manage to remove Trump, \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bamn.com\/stoptrumpscoup\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>by any means necessary<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u201d and Joe Biden takes the helm, we can anticipate<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/09\/24\/916184218\/nearly-500-national-security-experts-endorse-biden-for-president\">a bevy of globalist warmonger appointees<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>that make Trump\u2019s team look like disciples of Mahatma Gandhi. Among the names floated like <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/07\/21\/politics\/nicholas-burns-joe-biden-team-foreign-policy\/index.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nicholas Burns<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/opinion\/national-perspectives\/scott-taylor-thuggish-kosovo-president-not-aligned-with-canadian-values-467309\/\">Antony Blinken<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/this-is-who-joe-biden-should-nominate-as-defense-secretary\/2020\/09\/08\/371d00ca-f207-11ea-999c-67ff7bf6a9d2_story.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Michele Flournoy<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/obama-alum-evelyn-farkas-running-congress-away-burisma\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Evelyn Farkas<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/america-solidarity-covid19-climate-change-democracy-by-anne-marie-slaughter-and-sharon-e-burke-2020-09?barrier=accesspaylog\">Anne-Marie Slaughter<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, all were on board with Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, Syria \u2026 [<strong><u>NOTE<\/u><\/strong>: The Atlantic Council, known as NATO\u2019s semi-official think tank in Washington and which will be instrumental in staffing a future Joe Biden administration, also has been the beneficiary of <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/10\/14\/dcs-atlantic-council-raked-in-funding-from-hunter-bidens-corruption-stained-ukrainian-employer-while-courting-his-vp-father\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>generous donations from Hunter Biden\u2019s paymaster, Burisma<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s a recipe for wars, regime changes, and color revolutions galore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But to finish on a positive note, the potential future business opportunities will be endless!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2020\/10\/16\/before-biden-did-ukraine-there-was-iraq-and-serbia\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens in America next may be a form of blowback &#8211; or karma &#8211;  from a specific event: the U.S.-supported 2014 regime change operation in Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215198,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215193\/revisions\/215198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}